“When there’s friction in the world, it’s in that state that songs come out. The art of music is to take things that feel meaningless or hopeless and...
“Writing offers a falling away of something; a loss of judgment, a quieting of rumination. It’s hard to make the case for the value of astonishment...
“When you’re young, you come to destroy the generation above. I’m used to being the destroyer, and now I’m here to be destroyed. What I do notice...
“When you’re a writer, you live in dreamtime. It’s kind of like a kite. You begin with your own story, and the higher it goes, it starts to take off...
“In musical collaboration, you can kind of get outside of yourself. Being in a band, performing— in all those things, you have to collaborate and...
“Entertainment as a business does not work unless we have a viable career path for writers and actors. It can’t just be a gig economy where...
“I think that so often, when you enter journalism or creative fields, you kind of get the message that you’re allowed to be yourself— to a...
“It makes me emotional—how rich my life is with such amazing people. I’m so grateful to have met Paul and Cooper. Like, look at this thing we...
“I’m yearning to go a little deeper in all ways. I still have that yearning that Ilana and I had. That hustle feels in my bones.” -Abbi...
“In making Oppenheimer, we were trying to find the tone of the movie— and I wanted to do that by finding the emotional core of the music. I always...
“The humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border is going to be a political crisis for Democrats. If we cannot fix this, I guarantee you we will...
“During Black Panther, I came to the table with a knowledge of history, and I did research. Even with the latest technologies in costume design...
“The question coming out of this strike is, how do we turn this moment into a movement? This is a new generation. There is a new wave in Hollywood...
“We really make photographs; we don’t take them. I was trying to get away from the ‘caught moment,’ because Robert Frank and those photographers...
“Writing is like shaping some clay. It’s the act of shaping it that’s sort of fascinating. You don’t think, is this going to be just...
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